Except that the NSA FISA stuff wouldn't have stopped 9/11. The CIA was already monitoring the communications of those terrorists. When the terrorists crossed the border into the USA they were supposed to inform and possibly hand the case over to the FBI. Instead the CIA decided they wanted to glory hog and didn't tell the FBI anything, despite some of their own agents actually pushing to turn it over. Basically at least one person, if not more, in management at the CIA shares just as much blame for 9/11 as the actual terrorists, because while the terrorists did what they did out of some kind of twisted religious hatred, the CIA asshole(s) did it for career progression.
It had to be later than the 90's because the PS2 didn't come out until 2000. That said I think the USAF did cluster a bunch of PS2's together for some reason, although now I can't find a reference to that. In 2010 the USAF did make a PS3 cluster for analyzing satellite imagery.
There is no moral imperative to preserve cultures in some stagnant state. Archive and document it maybe, but I've yet to hear a good reason that any culture should be frozen in time for anyone. In a similar fashion values also shift and change over time, and there is little real reason to insist that a group of people stick with any one set indefinitely. By advocating for the preservation of specific sets of values, and cultures you are actually damaging social cohesion. The more we meld together and discover common cause with our neighbors learning each others culture and values, the better suited we all are to interact socially in a safe manner.
I think I bought it the night before it was released and I don't really remember that many bugs. It's possible that I just didn't encounter anything bad enough to notice it as a bug or was lucky. The only thing I can remember standing out was the mouse controls being borked as a console port, looking up or down required a hugely disproportionate amount of mouse movement, which was readily fixable through an ini file change. Now that I think of it though, I don't think I ever finished the civil war quest line.
The poster did indicate it was a family using the connection. It is entirely possible that a family with teenagers might have several people using streaming media on a nearly constant basis while at home and not sleeping. 300 GB in a week still seems a bit excessive to me, but then again I don't even use a cellphone so who knows what the kids are doing these days.
I think rationality gets a lot of use in religion, just not all the way from the top to the bottom. It's just like any good con, you sell one lie that the sucker wants to believe and then use reasoning to lead them to their safe deposit box. In my mind the clergy isn't all that good an indicator of whether or not one sex is more rational than the other, the congregation though is an entirely different matter. And I've gotta say I don't think I've ever seen a church congregation with more men than women.
I can't say yay, or nay on whether there is quality studies about that number. But there has been a lot of evidence found that indicates that the Native Americans were at some very low population numbers compared to historical highs when the colonization of North America got going. You can read up on the Mississippian Culture on wikipedia and see that there were very large settlements, comparable to Paris at the time. Then shortly after Spanish contact those settlements are abandoned and all that settlers find later are tiny tribal nomadic settlements.
I think a cheaper method might be to deploy thousands of drones each only carrying one or two munitions. From there you simply pile on more drones than the defenses can hope to shoot down. Since they are drones and you don't have to worry about losing expensive aircrew you can also have them fly at much lower altitudes when passing AA emplacements, making for a smaller window of opportunity for the AA systems.
The obvious problems I can see with this strategy though would be first, that guided munitions might need a lot of altitude to get on target properly, which might require rapid changes in altitude that the drones couldn't accomplish. Secondly the command and control system and subsystems would have to be very strong to handle thousands of drones, if not tens of thousands, and each drone would have to have some kind of inertial guidance system to guide it onto target in case command and control is taken out or jammed.
Even with those challenges though I'd wager it'd be cheaper than a small fleet of full size manned aircraft.
I wonder what MMO they are referencing there that has audiovisual content primarily stored on the game servers. Every MMO I've ever played has kept all of that on your computer and the game server just tells your computer where your character is on the map. All of the 3d models, textures, sounds, and maps are stored on your computer. All the rendering is done on your computer, the only things the game server typically provides is coordinate data for characters and mobs, spews out numbers from the random number generator, and signals events for scripted things, and of course tracks all the stats for your character.
I believe federal law, the FAA, defines your private property rights as extending to 500 feet above the ground level of your property. I don't know if a judge would find it reasonable for you to shoot down a drone at 399 feet. In this case though witnesses said it was below a tree line, so it was probably at less than 100 feet, and likely under 60.
So far as mounting a gun on a drone that is likely already illegal in many jurisdictions, regardless of purpose.
Napoleon can be chalked up as a failure of logistics. The doctrine of the time was that your armies relied heavily on plundered resources for their sustenance. That doctrine was especially important given the distances involved in invading Russia. The Russians denied Napoleon that strategy and it all went south from there.
Hitler was stopped in Russia because Stalin basically decided to just poor conscripts into the fight as long as it took to choke the German offensive. If Hitler had actually been able to bring all of his might to that fight he might have won anyways, as it was his armies were split fighting and holding conquered ground all over Europe and Africa.
If NATO went after Russia, instead of having the army of any one single nation to fight, they'd have several major nations and many smaller ones to fend off. Those nations would likely not have large portions of their military busy elsewhere. And they'd have the support of modern logistics where you don't have to worry about salting the earth strategies.
Air power would likely be a huge factor, and I don't know who would win on that front initially. But I'm pretty sure that NATO would have the better ability to sustain that kind of war and eventually win through attrition in the same way the Russians won at Stalingrad. Stealth fighters from my understanding are essentially a dead end though. Drones in an Anti Aircraft role would probably be more important.
I'm not sure how affected by cold temperatures tanks and other ground level stuff would be, the USA has been building and testing equipment for that purpose in Alaska for decades though. Aircraft would likely not be affected at all though, they are designed to function at such an altitude that the ground temps aren't really important. And it's not like those aircraft would be based out of conquered Russian territory anyways, they'd be flying sorties in from well behind any lines of battle.
Anyways, it's not like this is a situation unique to Russia, they just have a history of resisting invasion. The USA would face and ultimately crumble under the same kind of situation where it to face a significant portion of the industrialized world coming after it with torches and pitchforks. That is after all why the USA went all out in WW2 once the realization was made that we couldn't hope to win/survive by being isolationists.
Metals actually aren't likely to be a major problem. Most of the metals we've refined over the years are still available and frequently in higher purities than we found them. Junk yards and landfills would be the best place to go after them in all likelihood. Metals aren't commonly destroyed, even iron and steel just oxidize, which is pretty much what we smelt to get iron in the first place.
Oil would definitely be in short supply though. I've actually wondered what would happen in the long term with oil wells like deep water horizon in the event of a nuclear apocalypse. Even if they shutdown down safely how long would it take before something failed and that pressurized well pop'd and started spewing oil. Imagine every pressurized oil well in the world gushing it's contents until the pressure equalized, that might actually be more devastating than a nuclear winter.
From what I recall the Emperor was actually more pro-peace than much of his military leadership was. The Emperor actually put down a coup when he decided to surrender after the bombings? Before that though he did seem to want to resist a land invasion before surrendering as a means of saving face somehow. He definitely was looking to surrender, he just wanted to save as much face as possible before doing so. Nothing quite like trading thousands of lives for personal pride.
Which reminds me of one of my favorite Diderot quotes, something about mankind finally being free when the last king is throttled with the entrails of the last priest.
Standardized tests are unlikely to ever be good as you say. As such there are lots of clear patterns in them and you can then readily devise a course of study which focuses heavily on those patterns. This leads to students that are great at taking the standardized tests, but not actually understanding much of anything outside of that context. You might have noticed this yourself in classes like history, where memorizing dates was often more worthwhile for test taking purposes than the how and why of things. We probably could have a good standardized test set but we aren't likely to get it because it would be expensive to both create, administer, and then grade.
The 20 hours per year is only the time spent actually taking the tests. That's a bit like saying that a marathon only takes a few hours out of the year and so isn't a big deal, ignoring all the time spent training for it.
It doesn't really matter to Walmart whether or not Amazon is making a profit. So long as Amazon is doing business with customers that would otherwise take that business to Walmart, they are losing out. It's a lost sales situation
I have a hard time taking Walmart seriously when it comes to instant gratification. If I want anything fast I'll go to just about any other store first, because those other stores are more likely to actually have cashiers ready to work. Whenever I go to Walmart half my time in the store is spent waiting in line to check out.
I suppose it could be a fear of stirring up a reportable incident. In some situations just an investigation could lead to suspension of clearance until the investigation is completed. If her job was dependent on having the clearance then she might have to take some leave until it's cleared up. But so long as she didn't disclose or acknowledge some classified information she shouldn't have anything more to report than that some other researcher independently discovered something that she knows or suspects is classified.
I suppose you could have a situation where someone knows some secret vulnerability and can't spill the beans to fix it because they knew about it previously through classified means. But I would imagine that the number of people who know that kind of information, and then seek out private employment specifically looking for and fixing those kinds of things, to be a very small number. You are probably more likely to have co-workers who find and keep vulnerabilities secret so that they can sell them than keep mum because they already knew about it from previous classified work.
There are only a couple million people with clearances in the USA currently. The enormous majority of those people are military members that will likely never actually see anything above FOUO or PII, and have just the most basic level of clearances. Above that you have another large group of people who have top secret clearances of assorted flavors that still likely never work with anything above secret, but have TS just in case there is a spillage to deal with. I would expect that any zero days that the government is keeping to its self are classified at the TS level and probably only known to a few hundred people.
For 99.9% or more of people with a clearance there would be no way for them to know that a vulnerability is classified, and they would be obligated to report it and seek to fix it.
A clearance is just a certified opinion of your trustworthiness from the issuing agency.
Deliberately reading information that you know to be classified can cause you to lose that clearance depending on the following investigation. And yes, if you want to maintain a clearance you need to log specific types of conversations and contacts with foreign nationals. Mainly you do that though so you can provide it to the investigator whenever your clearance comes up for review. If you don't care to maintain the clearance you can just disregard all that and move on like anyone else.
Everything you've listed amounts to inconvenience for the person with the clearance. It doesn't actually affect you in anyway unless you are worried about them reporting the fact that they had a conversation with you about some topic or other.
Actually school shootings, even here in the USA, are very rare. In 2009 - 2010 there were almost 99,000 public schools in the USA, and who knows how many private schools. Tens of millions, in the neighborhood of 76m, kids attend school in this country every school day and how many of them are involved in a shooting? We might hear about what little violence does occur in the media constantly but the odds of anyone you know being involved in such an incident are very long.
Even if that is 100% true that just makes the son the modern equivalent of Rosa Parks. The response from the school administrators and police were completely inappropriate and in some ways illegal.
How does having a security clearance taint you? The only thing it indicates is that you either don't have much of anything to be blackmailed with, or that you have already disclosed such material to the government. There are other contracts you could have signed like NDA's, but that isn't part of having a clearance. Hell it's actually possible for a person to be granted a clearance without them having signed up for one at all.
I'm not saying it is worth the insane cost of living, but the cultural diversity in the whole bay area is pretty amazing. As someone who grew up in the Midwest I very much enjoyed living there for a couple years. I loved being able to get whatever kind of food I wanted wherever I was. And the weather is over all very pleasant most of the time, with many new homes built without central heating and cooling systems because they aren't necessary.
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Except that the NSA FISA stuff wouldn't have stopped 9/11. The CIA was already monitoring the communications of those terrorists. When the terrorists crossed the border into the USA they were supposed to inform and possibly hand the case over to the FBI. Instead the CIA decided they wanted to glory hog and didn't tell the FBI anything, despite some of their own agents actually pushing to turn it over. Basically at least one person, if not more, in management at the CIA shares just as much blame for 9/11 as the actual terrorists, because while the terrorists did what they did out of some kind of twisted religious hatred, the CIA asshole(s) did it for career progression.
It had to be later than the 90's because the PS2 didn't come out until 2000. That said I think the USAF did cluster a bunch of PS2's together for some reason, although now I can't find a reference to that. In 2010 the USAF did make a PS3 cluster for analyzing satellite imagery.
There is no moral imperative to preserve cultures in some stagnant state. Archive and document it maybe, but I've yet to hear a good reason that any culture should be frozen in time for anyone. In a similar fashion values also shift and change over time, and there is little real reason to insist that a group of people stick with any one set indefinitely. By advocating for the preservation of specific sets of values, and cultures you are actually damaging social cohesion. The more we meld together and discover common cause with our neighbors learning each others culture and values, the better suited we all are to interact socially in a safe manner.
I think I bought it the night before it was released and I don't really remember that many bugs. It's possible that I just didn't encounter anything bad enough to notice it as a bug or was lucky. The only thing I can remember standing out was the mouse controls being borked as a console port, looking up or down required a hugely disproportionate amount of mouse movement, which was readily fixable through an ini file change. Now that I think of it though, I don't think I ever finished the civil war quest line.
The poster did indicate it was a family using the connection. It is entirely possible that a family with teenagers might have several people using streaming media on a nearly constant basis while at home and not sleeping. 300 GB in a week still seems a bit excessive to me, but then again I don't even use a cellphone so who knows what the kids are doing these days.
I'm 1 for 2, so it's not 100% that you won't get to serve unless you go out of your way.
I think rationality gets a lot of use in religion, just not all the way from the top to the bottom. It's just like any good con, you sell one lie that the sucker wants to believe and then use reasoning to lead them to their safe deposit box. In my mind the clergy isn't all that good an indicator of whether or not one sex is more rational than the other, the congregation though is an entirely different matter. And I've gotta say I don't think I've ever seen a church congregation with more men than women.
I can't say yay, or nay on whether there is quality studies about that number. But there has been a lot of evidence found that indicates that the Native Americans were at some very low population numbers compared to historical highs when the colonization of North America got going. You can read up on the Mississippian Culture on wikipedia and see that there were very large settlements, comparable to Paris at the time. Then shortly after Spanish contact those settlements are abandoned and all that settlers find later are tiny tribal nomadic settlements.
I think a cheaper method might be to deploy thousands of drones each only carrying one or two munitions. From there you simply pile on more drones than the defenses can hope to shoot down. Since they are drones and you don't have to worry about losing expensive aircrew you can also have them fly at much lower altitudes when passing AA emplacements, making for a smaller window of opportunity for the AA systems.
The obvious problems I can see with this strategy though would be first, that guided munitions might need a lot of altitude to get on target properly, which might require rapid changes in altitude that the drones couldn't accomplish. Secondly the command and control system and subsystems would have to be very strong to handle thousands of drones, if not tens of thousands, and each drone would have to have some kind of inertial guidance system to guide it onto target in case command and control is taken out or jammed.
Even with those challenges though I'd wager it'd be cheaper than a small fleet of full size manned aircraft.
And if we hadn't had Alcohol Prohibition the Kennedy's wouldn't have been a dynasty either.
I wonder what MMO they are referencing there that has audiovisual content primarily stored on the game servers. Every MMO I've ever played has kept all of that on your computer and the game server just tells your computer where your character is on the map. All of the 3d models, textures, sounds, and maps are stored on your computer. All the rendering is done on your computer, the only things the game server typically provides is coordinate data for characters and mobs, spews out numbers from the random number generator, and signals events for scripted things, and of course tracks all the stats for your character.
I believe federal law, the FAA, defines your private property rights as extending to 500 feet above the ground level of your property. I don't know if a judge would find it reasonable for you to shoot down a drone at 399 feet. In this case though witnesses said it was below a tree line, so it was probably at less than 100 feet, and likely under 60.
So far as mounting a gun on a drone that is likely already illegal in many jurisdictions, regardless of purpose.
Napoleon can be chalked up as a failure of logistics. The doctrine of the time was that your armies relied heavily on plundered resources for their sustenance. That doctrine was especially important given the distances involved in invading Russia. The Russians denied Napoleon that strategy and it all went south from there.
Hitler was stopped in Russia because Stalin basically decided to just poor conscripts into the fight as long as it took to choke the German offensive. If Hitler had actually been able to bring all of his might to that fight he might have won anyways, as it was his armies were split fighting and holding conquered ground all over Europe and Africa.
If NATO went after Russia, instead of having the army of any one single nation to fight, they'd have several major nations and many smaller ones to fend off. Those nations would likely not have large portions of their military busy elsewhere. And they'd have the support of modern logistics where you don't have to worry about salting the earth strategies.
Air power would likely be a huge factor, and I don't know who would win on that front initially. But I'm pretty sure that NATO would have the better ability to sustain that kind of war and eventually win through attrition in the same way the Russians won at Stalingrad. Stealth fighters from my understanding are essentially a dead end though. Drones in an Anti Aircraft role would probably be more important.
I'm not sure how affected by cold temperatures tanks and other ground level stuff would be, the USA has been building and testing equipment for that purpose in Alaska for decades though. Aircraft would likely not be affected at all though, they are designed to function at such an altitude that the ground temps aren't really important. And it's not like those aircraft would be based out of conquered Russian territory anyways, they'd be flying sorties in from well behind any lines of battle.
Anyways, it's not like this is a situation unique to Russia, they just have a history of resisting invasion. The USA would face and ultimately crumble under the same kind of situation where it to face a significant portion of the industrialized world coming after it with torches and pitchforks. That is after all why the USA went all out in WW2 once the realization was made that we couldn't hope to win/survive by being isolationists.
Metals actually aren't likely to be a major problem. Most of the metals we've refined over the years are still available and frequently in higher purities than we found them. Junk yards and landfills would be the best place to go after them in all likelihood. Metals aren't commonly destroyed, even iron and steel just oxidize, which is pretty much what we smelt to get iron in the first place.
Oil would definitely be in short supply though. I've actually wondered what would happen in the long term with oil wells like deep water horizon in the event of a nuclear apocalypse. Even if they shutdown down safely how long would it take before something failed and that pressurized well pop'd and started spewing oil. Imagine every pressurized oil well in the world gushing it's contents until the pressure equalized, that might actually be more devastating than a nuclear winter.
From what I recall the Emperor was actually more pro-peace than much of his military leadership was. The Emperor actually put down a coup when he decided to surrender after the bombings? Before that though he did seem to want to resist a land invasion before surrendering as a means of saving face somehow. He definitely was looking to surrender, he just wanted to save as much face as possible before doing so. Nothing quite like trading thousands of lives for personal pride.
Which reminds me of one of my favorite Diderot quotes, something about mankind finally being free when the last king is throttled with the entrails of the last priest.
Standardized tests are unlikely to ever be good as you say. As such there are lots of clear patterns in them and you can then readily devise a course of study which focuses heavily on those patterns. This leads to students that are great at taking the standardized tests, but not actually understanding much of anything outside of that context. You might have noticed this yourself in classes like history, where memorizing dates was often more worthwhile for test taking purposes than the how and why of things. We probably could have a good standardized test set but we aren't likely to get it because it would be expensive to both create, administer, and then grade.
The 20 hours per year is only the time spent actually taking the tests. That's a bit like saying that a marathon only takes a few hours out of the year and so isn't a big deal, ignoring all the time spent training for it.
It doesn't really matter to Walmart whether or not Amazon is making a profit. So long as Amazon is doing business with customers that would otherwise take that business to Walmart, they are losing out. It's a lost sales situation
I have a hard time taking Walmart seriously when it comes to instant gratification. If I want anything fast I'll go to just about any other store first, because those other stores are more likely to actually have cashiers ready to work. Whenever I go to Walmart half my time in the store is spent waiting in line to check out.
I suppose it could be a fear of stirring up a reportable incident. In some situations just an investigation could lead to suspension of clearance until the investigation is completed. If her job was dependent on having the clearance then she might have to take some leave until it's cleared up. But so long as she didn't disclose or acknowledge some classified information she shouldn't have anything more to report than that some other researcher independently discovered something that she knows or suspects is classified.
I suppose you could have a situation where someone knows some secret vulnerability and can't spill the beans to fix it because they knew about it previously through classified means. But I would imagine that the number of people who know that kind of information, and then seek out private employment specifically looking for and fixing those kinds of things, to be a very small number. You are probably more likely to have co-workers who find and keep vulnerabilities secret so that they can sell them than keep mum because they already knew about it from previous classified work.
There are only a couple million people with clearances in the USA currently. The enormous majority of those people are military members that will likely never actually see anything above FOUO or PII, and have just the most basic level of clearances. Above that you have another large group of people who have top secret clearances of assorted flavors that still likely never work with anything above secret, but have TS just in case there is a spillage to deal with. I would expect that any zero days that the government is keeping to its self are classified at the TS level and probably only known to a few hundred people.
For 99.9% or more of people with a clearance there would be no way for them to know that a vulnerability is classified, and they would be obligated to report it and seek to fix it.
A clearance is just a certified opinion of your trustworthiness from the issuing agency.
Deliberately reading information that you know to be classified can cause you to lose that clearance depending on the following investigation. And yes, if you want to maintain a clearance you need to log specific types of conversations and contacts with foreign nationals. Mainly you do that though so you can provide it to the investigator whenever your clearance comes up for review. If you don't care to maintain the clearance you can just disregard all that and move on like anyone else.
Everything you've listed amounts to inconvenience for the person with the clearance. It doesn't actually affect you in anyway unless you are worried about them reporting the fact that they had a conversation with you about some topic or other.
Actually school shootings, even here in the USA, are very rare. In 2009 - 2010 there were almost 99,000 public schools in the USA, and who knows how many private schools. Tens of millions, in the neighborhood of 76m, kids attend school in this country every school day and how many of them are involved in a shooting? We might hear about what little violence does occur in the media constantly but the odds of anyone you know being involved in such an incident are very long.
Even if that is 100% true that just makes the son the modern equivalent of Rosa Parks. The response from the school administrators and police were completely inappropriate and in some ways illegal.
How does having a security clearance taint you? The only thing it indicates is that you either don't have much of anything to be blackmailed with, or that you have already disclosed such material to the government. There are other contracts you could have signed like NDA's, but that isn't part of having a clearance. Hell it's actually possible for a person to be granted a clearance without them having signed up for one at all.
I'm not saying it is worth the insane cost of living, but the cultural diversity in the whole bay area is pretty amazing. As someone who grew up in the Midwest I very much enjoyed living there for a couple years. I loved being able to get whatever kind of food I wanted wherever I was. And the weather is over all very pleasant most of the time, with many new homes built without central heating and cooling systems because they aren't necessary.